The stewards ruled: “The DRS enabling system was not changed by the team from the pre-race to the race setting. The driver therefore incorrectly received ‘DRS enabled’ messages and reacted to them (when not entitled to) on three occasions.

“As soon as the team became aware of the problem they informed the driver to only use DRS when told to do so by the team.

“Whilst a small sporting advantage (less than one second over the entire race) was gained, the team argued car three [Alonso] also suffered a disadvantage by being unable to use DRS on every legitimate occasion.

“However, the team is ultimately responsible for ensuring the system conforms to the regulations.”

It’s interesting that this always happens to Alonso. Wouldn’t if it was a setting thing they would have forgotten to do Massa’s as well? I totally believe they are fudging the rules to try to boost Alonso’s position and they keep getting caught but never face a penalty. Shows who’s in charge of F1.

What was it Ferrari said after the Mercedes tyre test hearing? Well everyone might was well just use DRS every lap after this ruling… Mistake or not, seems like this was a clear breach of the rules and should have resulted in a 20s penalty applied at the end of the race, or a drive through during the race.